Word: uzi
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...result of the bank raids, the Republic has built up its own surveillance of the border region. In early September Prime Minister Charles Haughey's government announced that Dublin will spend $240 million to deploy more helicopters and spotter aircraft, equip special detective teams with Israeli UZI submachine guns, use unmarked police cars and-shades of The Informer-pay more money for inside tipoffs...
...Schwechat Airport, and then let rumors circulate that he would arrive on Monday. In fact, he showed up in another plane on Sunday night. During the meeting, he was constantly surrounded by his own British-trained security officers as well as by Austrian antiterrorist policemen carrying Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns...
...Carter Administration gave no serious thought to one obvious alternative to negotiation, a military rescue effort. In the view of U.S. officials, the prospects for such an operation have not changed since November-except possibly for the worse. The militants are still armed with automatic rifles and Uzi submachine guns, and in their four months of prison duty have received intensive weapons training. As one Carter aide put it: "The President is as frustrated as anyone, but he's not going to lose his temper and pull a Mayaguez." Banisadr's view on the military option was similar...